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President Barack Obama has said that the huge number of unaccompanied children who are coming to the United States from Central America represents an urgent humanitarian situation. He is right; the suffering of tens of thousands of children is unthinkable.

President Vladimir Putin maintains strong support in Russia. Gennady Timchenko, whom the US Treasury Department has described as someone whose ‘activities in the energy sector have been closely linked to President Vladimir Putin,’ said: “We have encountered certain difficulties because of sanctions, but they are negligible when compared with the country’s goals. It is naive to think that with such methods anyone will scare us or force us to retreat,” apparently admitting that there is a cohesive group surrounding Putin. Furthermore, 85% of Russians approve of Putin’s policies according to a survey released in July last year. The article also quotes Yevgeny Minchenko, Director of the International Institute of Political Expertise, as saying: “Toppling Putin from the top is impossible given the present level of public support for the President.”

In 1944, on Stalin’s orders, the Crimean Tatar people were deported from Crimea to Central Asia in the space of three days. According to analyst Alexander Podrabinek, seventy years later, the Russian authorities are still putting pressure, if not on the entire Crimean Tatar people, then at least on their most prominent representatives, by banning leaders of the Crimean Tatar assembly (or Mejlis)Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov from entering Russia.

Buildup Makes Russia Battle-Ready for UkraineNew York TimesWASHINGTON — Russia has roughly doubled the number of its battalions near the Ukrainian border, Western officials said Monday, and could respond to the Kiev government's gains there by launching a cross-border incursion with little or no warning.

Ukrainian troops cross into Russia to avoid fightingSydney Morning HeraldKiev: Ukraine said it was in talks with Moscow over the return of 311 Ukrainian soldiers and border guards who had been forced by fighting with separatists to cross into Russia, but Russianborder authorities said the troops were seeking asylum. Both ...

Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have expropriated ambulances to transport able-bodied fighters and threatened medical staff, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report due out on Tuesday.

The organisation, which has also criticised pro-Kiev forces for using imprecise Grad rockets in civilian areas, found a number of instances of rebels stationing fighters at hospitals, seizing or destroying medical equipment and using ambulances to transport fighters.

Japan Formally OKs Additional Russia SanctionsABC NewsJapan has formally approved additional sanctions against Russia over the unrest in Ukraine. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday the sanctions include the freezing of assets held in Japan by 40 individuals and two groups supporting the ...

Russia to hold war games in show of strength near UkraineReutersThe move could alarm Western powers which have accused Russia of beefing up its troops along its border with Ukraine and arming the rebels in eastern Ukraine, although Moscow denies the accusations. The manoeuvres include missile-firing practice and ...

Russia may impose restrictions or a ban on European airlines using trans-Siberian routes, raising the cost of their flights to Asia in response to the European Union's sanctions over Ukraine, a news report said Tuesday.

Putin's long-term vision is to build a rival EU - or an EAU, the Eurasian Union trade zone

The escalating conflict in Ukraine between the western-backed government and Russian-backed separatists has focused attention on a fundamental question: what are the Kremlin's long-term objectives? Though the Russian president Vladimir Putin's immediate goal may have been limited to regaining control of Crimea and retaining some influence in Ukrainian affairs, his longer-term ambition is much bolder.

That ambition is not difficult to discern. Putin once famously observed that the Soviet Union's collapse was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. Thus, his long-term objective has been to rebuild it in some form, perhaps as a supra-national union of member states like the European Union.

Security officials in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan say they have detained citizens of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan -- together with two Afghan police officers -- on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activities.

Reports from Moscow say Russian authorities are considering an airspace ban against European airlines that use trans-Siberian routes in retaliation for European Union sanctions that have targeted Russia's low-cost airline Dobrolyot.

A retired Ukrainian soldier decided to rejoin the army after he saw a television report about troops suffering losses against the separatist insurgency in the country's east. The 58-year-old sniper, who uses the nom de guerre Klym, now fights alongside younger soldiers in the Donbas battalion in the embattled Donetsk region. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)

For months, Moscow has been calling for the international community to accept "federalization" and the right to self-determination for residents of eastern Ukraine. But a planned march for the same in Siberia has prompted authorities to threaten to block at least 17 prominent news sites.

State regulator had threatened to block BBC Russia website if material featuring Artem Loskutov was not taken down

The BBC World Service has rejected a request by the Russian state media watchdog to remove an interview in which an activist urged listeners to support an unsanctioned march for the federalisation of Siberia.

"These three main countries from which the children are fleeing are among the nations with top five murder rates in the world (along with Belize and Venezuela), according to the most recent United Nations data. In some cases, such as Guatemala, the homicide rate has actually declined slightly in recent years. But crimes like extortion have become "widespread and intolerable," says Cynthia Arnson, the Latin America director at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "Everyone is hit, down to the person at the bottom of the informal economy selling chewing gum."

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